Suddenly, everything has shifted ahead of the fifth — and nominally final — round of UN-led negotiations for a global plastics treaty at the end of the month.

Ten states on Friday called on the U.S. government to go beyond backing production caps in a global plastic treaty, and ...

By Charles Pekow The chances for a stronger international agreement on limits to plastic production may have increased dramatically as the world nears a U.N. deadline for achieving a plastics treaty.

The presidential election could have big implications for how the United States responds to a global plastics crisis.

The bill calls for a national standard to increase recycled content in plastic packaging by up to 30% by 2030. To meet that ...

A Society of Plastics Engineers conference looked at the pace of change in finding alternatives to PFAS "forever chemicals" ...

Nations could agree in December on a world-first treaty to reduce the amount of plastic leaking into the environment which, ...

Ten US states on Friday called for the United States federal government to advocate for stronger measures in an upcoming ...

Before it threatened biodiversity, the oceans and the global food chain, plastics saved lives and transformed societies as a ...

After years of pressure from environmental advocates, the global retail giant Amazon announced that it has eliminated plastic ...

The 21 business leaders have signed an open letter ahead of next month’s United Nations treaty negotiations to curb plastic ...

A man who used to work as a plastic surgeon in Sioux City has agreed to pay nearly $200k to the United States and the state ...